Hard disk backup using dd

[Tim Wunder]

On 5/10/2004 8:14 AM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote:

> On Mon, 10 May 2004, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Because of some communication and cultural problems, I need to know how
>>to make a full disk backup. I hear that you can use "dd" to make a CD
>>ISO image which you can transfer to another hard disk (even if it is a
>>different size), but I don't know how to do that.
>>
>>Any help would be deeply appreciated!
> 
> 
> dd if=/dev/original of=backup.iso
> 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I should be able to use dd on partitions, 
right? So if I
# dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdc1
All that is on /dev/hda1 will find itself on /dev/hdc1, provided that 
/dev/hdc1 is at least as large as /dev/hda1.

Thanks,
Tim